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Fay loved Coney Island.

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The Mermaid and Surf are
two streets in Coney Island.

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"Looking at the modest buildings
on Mermaid Avenue, the signs

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chatter English,
Spanish, sort of Chinese,

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as the bright sun's cracked
rays splash walls and windows.

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You see that Mermaid
is where locals

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go to pray at a shrine,
offering solace and recovery,

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buy mangoes and
apples and chicken,

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or get their hair
done by African women

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all the way from Timbuktu.

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Surf Avenue is the boundary
between neighborhood and fun

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seekers' noise and trophies
and candy, beaches, bikinis,

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and beer.

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There, we spy the
Secret Psychic's shack.

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She is not there to offer solace
in the name of a soul mate

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desired, but she does not
need to tell us about death,

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which is everywhere.

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Hear it in the shouts of riders
from the top of looping rides,

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in the Atlantic's dark waves.

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And the cut flesh of burned
hands of fry cooks come

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for 'The American Dream,' but
lately riding the night's angry

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mares."